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Wizz Air Announces 3 New Routes From Budapest - Ibiza, Liverpool And Reykjavik

ASL Airlines France to offer a new service from Bordeaux to Hamburg

ASL Airlines France announces the launch of a new route between Bordeaux and Hamburg for the 2016 summer season. The second unprecedented route out of Bordeaux  ASL Airlines France today announced the launch of its inaugural flight between Bordeaux and Hamburg, following its first route out...

Image released of the Istanbul New Airport

A tower in the shape of a giant tulip will become the iconic symbol of the new 10.2 billion euros ($11 billion) Istanbul New Airport, which set to be opened in the spring of 2018. As part of an international competition to build the future air traffic control tower, the operating consortium IGA s...

Capacity crisis at UK airports revealed by delays league

The capacity squeeze at Britain's overcrowded airports and need for a new runway in the South East has been highlighted by data revealing punctuality in the airline industry. At Heathrow - the UK's busiest airport and the most likely site of a new runway - more than a quarter of all take-offs and and landings in 2015 took place more than 15 minutes outside their scheduled slot. Gatwi...

Sharjah Aviation Services introduce new baggage services at Sharjah Airport

Sharjah Aviation Services has announced it will introduce new automated baggage management and communication systems at Sharjah International Airport. The new systems, provided by global air transport technology specialist SITA, are aimed at further improving the reliability, security and speed of baggage delivery at the airport. More than 4.5 million departing bags are handled at the...

LIAT launches new routes with Caribbean Helicopters Charter Agreement

LIAT, The Caribbean Airline, has entered into a bespoke charter agreement with Caribbean Helicopters, based in Antigua & Barbuda, whereby the company will provide LIAT with charter flights into specific markets in the region. Caribbean Helicopters operates a fleet of Piper Navajo Chieftain PA31-350 and Britten Norman BN2 aircraft, which are ideal for services into some of the smal...

Saudi Arabia to privatise Jeddah, Dammam airports in 2017

Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority will privatise Jeddah and Dammam airports in 2017, the regulatory said on Tuesday. King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi’s busiest airport, will be privatised in the second quarter of 2017 as the kingdom seeks ways to support state finances following the sustained slump in oil prices. Dammam’s King Fahd International A...

Qatar Airways adds non-stop daily service between Los Angeles and Doha

Qatar Airways has added a new daily, non-stop service between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Hamad International Airport (DOH) in Doha, which started January 1. The new route features the airline’s landmark Boeing 777-200 and represents Qatar Airways' first passenger service to the West Coast of the United States. The expansion to LAX is the first of three new US destinat...

Hobart Airport masterplan approved

Minister for Infrastructure Warren Truss approved the latest masterplan for Hobart Airport in the days before Christmas. Central to the plan, under which the airport maps out how it will address forecast passenger growth over the next 20 years, is the planned extension of the airport’s runway (12/30) to 2,751 metres. “Approval of this plan allows for the construction of the...

The Unluckiest Flight on New Year’s Eve: United San Francisco – Sydney

United’s San Francisco – Sydney flight on New Year’s Eve encountered problems. And once it did, it just couldn’t catch a break. Crew reported smoke in the cockpit when the flight was 600 nautical miles south of Kona, Hawaii. So they decided to divert. The smoke and fumes dissipated and they decided to divert to Honolulu instead. A passenger report...

First Austrian Airlines Embraer Jet Took Off for Inaugural Flight to Stuttgart

Launch of medium-haul fleet renewal: almost new Embraer jets to replace the Fokker fleet · Embraer aircraft going to operate flights to Central and Eastern Europe e.g. Belgrade, Warsaw and Tirana, but also to Hamburg, Thessaloniki and on many more routes · 200 pilots, 600 flight attendants and about 80 technicians being trained for the fleet of 17 Embraer je...

Dubai Duty Free Group sales reach Dhs7.057 billion (US$1.933 billion) in 2015

Dubai Duty Free Group sales reach Dhs7.057 billion (US$1.933 billion) in 2015. The New Year began on a high note for Dubai Duty Free as the group, which incorporates the airport retail operation and its Leisure division, announced turnover of Dhs7.057 billion (US$1.933 billion) for 2015. The figure includes Dubai Duty Free sales, which reached Dhs6.892 billion (US$1.888 billion) for the year...

Gatwick Airport launches community noise lab

Gatwick Airport has launched the UK’s first community noise lab – an interactive online tool designed to help local people more accurately monitor aircraft noise. The gateway says the noise lab is modelled on a similar tool introduced by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol – the first of its kind in the world – and provides members of the public with better overflight inform...

New Aircraft Features Reduced Emissions, Superior Comfort and Less Jetlag

Qatar Airways, the launch customer of the A350 and the first airline to land the A350 in the United States, achieved another milestone by being the first airline to offer a regularly-scheduled A350 service to the United States with its January 1, 2016 service from Doha’s Hamad International Airport to Philadelphia. Qatar Airways was the official launch customer for the A350 and continues...

Emirates to add new daily flight from Dubai to Cebu and Clark in Philippines

Emirates is to launch a new daily circular service from Dubai to Cebu and Clark in the Philippines as it looks to strengthen tourism and trade links. The new service, which will feature a Boeing 777-300ER, will start from March 30 and will provide more options for Filipino workers living overseas - of which there are nearly 900,000 living in Dubai. “This new service will help to enhanc...

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Star Alliance Paris CDG Lounge remains the World's Best Airline Alliance Lounge

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